CORAM DEO MONDAYS with MARISA
“Whoever claims to live in him must walk as Jesus did.”
1 Jn. 2:6
How in the world are we to walk as Jesus did? To what extent are we to fulfill this instruction found in today’s key verse? Has God really said, “Walk like Jesus?” Surely He did not really expect us to do it?! Many of us have labored much of our Christian lives to achieve a watered down version of Christ’s walk. We do good deeds and set a good Christian example, yet fizzle out and fall short.
When we consider the life of Christ, we see that out of all the men in history, He has been the only One who lived coram Deo every minute of every day. And now that same Jesus lives in us, empowering us toward the same kind of coram Deo walk that He had. Let’s read Christ’s very own statements:
“It is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work…I love the Father and that I do exactly what my Father has commanded me…I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does…I do not seek My own will, but the will of Him who sent me…By myself I can do nothing.” Jn 14:10b, Jn. 14:31, Jn. 5:19, Jn. 5:30 (NASB)
If Jesus, the One through whom all things were created, declared, “By myself I can do nothing,” how much more so should we declare this? If Jesus, the very image of the invisible God, watched the Father intently to see what He was doing because He could “do nothing by himself,” how much more should we?! (Col. 1:15) If Jesus, God in the flesh, did nothing on His own will, how much more so should we? We were re-created to walk this way. We can do it; to walk any other way is contrary to our new nature. (Joyner Message to Glorious Church 2004)
Adapted from the Coram Deo Secret
http://www.marisarickerson.com/coram-deo.html
“Whoever claims to live in him must walk as Jesus did.”
1 Jn. 2:6
How in the world are we to walk as Jesus did? To what extent are we to fulfill this instruction found in today’s key verse? Has God really said, “Walk like Jesus?” Surely He did not really expect us to do it?! Many of us have labored much of our Christian lives to achieve a watered down version of Christ’s walk. We do good deeds and set a good Christian example, yet fizzle out and fall short.
When we consider the life of Christ, we see that out of all the men in history, He has been the only One who lived coram Deo every minute of every day. And now that same Jesus lives in us, empowering us toward the same kind of coram Deo walk that He had. Let’s read Christ’s very own statements:
“It is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work…I love the Father and that I do exactly what my Father has commanded me…I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does…I do not seek My own will, but the will of Him who sent me…By myself I can do nothing.” Jn 14:10b, Jn. 14:31, Jn. 5:19, Jn. 5:30 (NASB)
If Jesus, the One through whom all things were created, declared, “By myself I can do nothing,” how much more so should we declare this? If Jesus, the very image of the invisible God, watched the Father intently to see what He was doing because He could “do nothing by himself,” how much more should we?! (Col. 1:15) If Jesus, God in the flesh, did nothing on His own will, how much more so should we? We were re-created to walk this way. We can do it; to walk any other way is contrary to our new nature. (Joyner Message to Glorious Church 2004)
Adapted from the Coram Deo Secret
http://www.marisarickerson.com/coram-deo.html
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